Eat, Memory : : Great Writers at the Table : a Collection of Essays From the New York Times

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Illusions. Paris match / Ann Patchett -- The great carrot caper / Dan Barber -- The fish / Billy Collins -- The squeamish American / Tom Perrotta -- The absolutely no-anything diet / Geroge Saunders. Discoveries. The sixth sense / Gary Shteyngart -- The dining room wars / R. W. Apple Jr. -- I scream / Colson Whitehead -- Orange crush / Yiyun Li -- Michelin man / James Salter. Struggles. A not-so-simple plan / Patricia Marx -- The sauce and the fury / Julia Child with Alex Prud'Homme -- Bean there / Tucker Carlson -- Home turf / Kiran Desai -- Line of sight / Gabrielle Hamilton. Loss. Expatriate games / John Burnham Schwartz -- Inward bound / Chang-Rae Lee -- Our Lady of Lawson / Pick Iyer -- American dreams / Jon Robin Baitz -- Compliments of the nurse / Dawn Drzal. Coming home. Turning Japanese / Heidi Julavits -- A taste of home / Manil Suri -- Ghosts of Passovers past / Anna Winger -- Eau God / Henry Alford -- Family menu / Allen Shawn -- Crossing to safety / Dorothy Allison.
"New York Times Magazine"-food editor Hesser has showcased the food-inspired recollections of some of America's leading writers. "Eat, Memory" collects the 26 best stories and recipes from some of the playwrights, novelists, and journalists featured in her column.

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Uneven But Appetizing submitted by sdunav on June 28, 2012, 12:38pm This is a little book, with a bunch of snack-sized (but delicious) essays. The first one in there (by author Ann Patchett) was kind of a dud, so I set the book down and didn't pick it up again until right before it was due at the library - but most of the rest of the pieces in it were amazing. Several very funny bits, more than a couple that made me tear up - all in all, wonderful if you like reading about food.

My favorites: a chef who tries to grow almond-infused carrots (he dumps almond dust from oil-making in the soil), a guy who hates dessert (especially ice cream) because of his experiences as a teenager working at an ice cream parlor, a Chinese woman who writes about Tang in Beijing, Julia Child failing a cooking test, Tucker Carlson working at a B&M bean factory...ah, too many to list. Read it yourself.